Improvement in cultivators



UNITED VSTATES PATENT OFFICE. f

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IM PROVEMENT IN -CULTlvA-ons..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 28,829, dated .Iune '-I860. l

l To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, E. M. BRGOKS, of Greenville, Meriwether county, -Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seed and Guano Distributing Gultivators; and l dov hereby declare. that the following is a lfull, clear, and exact description of the same,-

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and 'to the letters o'f II efereucc marked thereon.

The nature of my inventionconsists inconstructing 44and arrangingl the several parts of this machine substantially inthe manner hereinafter described. 1' v' f .In the annexed drawings, Figurev 1- repre-v sents a side elevation. Fig. 2 is' a plan view' of the machine. Fig. 3'is ja vertical section of we seedhox. FigAtis a perspeetivelof the .seed-box..4 Fig. 5 is a view of. the-guano-slide.

In the ligues, A represents the beam of the plow, which is "made in any convenient and strong manner. B represents the standard at the rear of the beam, which is secured to said To the lower end beam in the-usual manner. of the standard is secu redl the usual bull-tongue for opening a furrow for the reception jot` grain.-

N-represents a `fraine,\\'"hicl1'is secured to the lsirle of the beam, aud'which is for t-he pur pose of sustaining onesi'de of the axle of a wheel, D;,.which supports the front-of the beam. The axle eff the said vwheelD has one bearing in ajournalbox securedto the `under, side of .thebeam, while'itsother bearing is in a jour-v nal-box secured 'to the under side ofthe frame4 lN,as represented in Fig. 1.-l The periphery of th'ewheel D is corrugated orl sca1loped, as seenl in Fig. 1. iSecured' tothewheel D isa-pulley,- E', around .which passes '1 a. vband forl the pur',-

poseodriving the seed-cylinder. Y Hl represents a seed-box, which j is secured ton orfdis'tributn'gguano tlreyf'aregbo sides vot fthe7 com pe W tributing'cylinder mo pack or clog-.1

ing-cylinder,G, is secured; Q'Ih scylinder revolves upon an axis which ,has-lts bearings in the 'sides'of the box. Upon' theperiphery of the cylinder are teeth or-pin's :i: w,whichcut carry out the'cotton-seed from the "box.

-P represents the spout-attached to the seedbox, through `which the seed, &c.,vfalls as it Vpasses Ito theground.,

Irepresents a slide, whichj's provided with a slot or lnarrow opening, s.. lThis slide is so arranged as to fs'lidein the spout P andcover the opening in the 'sident' thc'boxthrough -which the cotton-seed iscarriefl out. The ob ject of 'using this slde'provid''d with. the narrow opening' islo'r distrihut'ing guano. e teeth upon the-cylinder G cut through the slot in the-slide I and carry out the guano, vwhich falls-tothe ground through the spout P.

F represents a pulley ecurecl to the axis of the cylinder G. The band M passes around this pulley7 F and around jthe pulley E, and

f, maiis-.provided with .severalghol'eszasi Sweat.;

,gso that byremovin'g the bol-t wh'ich'secures p the harto.. the'gstandard said bar" may be `adjusted to l"orjfrrn'n' the ground. "'l.he e nds of "thesebars are formed. for covering` the grain' s it .fallsbefo're them from'the'V hopper". Dit'-A fernt-shaped blades may be attached-.to them 'orfcultivatingif necessary. By using. acylinderjiin thefbottom of the seedj-boxil, which is provided-with seedfapeii-L ings; upon its-peripheryfcorngzor othe'rgj"graill'` eadilyandf 'can lnever In the bottom 'ofi-lle Aseedb'o'xadistribut-` throughlan opening in the side'of the box and\ serves 'tocoinmunicate-motiou from thewheel A vL represents axtightenmg'pulley, which is.

these/betref,

may he distributed, or anethet b0x-f;provdcd v strueted, with the standard B, distributingwith a proper cylinder maybe substituted and l cylinder G, provided with pins or -'teeth x x,

used for the` purpose of seeding 'corn or other and with the slide I, provided with an opening,

grain. i s, when the same are usedysubstmitially as Having thus fully described my invention, and for the purpose specified.

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by M. BROOKS.

Letters Patent, isl The arrangement ofthe seed-box H, as een- Witnesses:

C. M. ALEXANDER,- J'oHN M. WILLIAMS. 

